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第 35 題
📖 題組：
III. Reading Comprehension 【A】 According to Wikipedia, an urban legend is “a modern genre of stories rooted in local popular culture, usually comprising fictional stories that are often presented as true, with macabre or humorous elements.” Some urban legends are outright horror stories meant to scare people. They are explicit in their warnings of government conspiracies, attacks by criminals, and so forth. Others are ridiculous graphic tales intended to shock. An urban legend may be based on reality, but over time it can take on the outlandish proportions of myth. While the term “urban legend” dates back to at least as far as the late 1960s, the advent of the Internet has massively increased both the number and range of urban legends. Two that regularly pop up are the “email tax” and the story of Craig Shergold. The email tax legend says that the US Postal Service is going to impose a five-cent tax on every email sent to make up for lost postage fees, since people now send electronic mail instead of using the postal system. The Shergold legend for its part, was initially true. It tells of a young British boy with a cancerous brain tumor who wanted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by way of a chain letter campaign. Although notice was given that the boy was cured in 1991, he was still receiving thousands of letters and business cards as late as 2013. Needless to say, many people have been affected by urban legends because they’re gullible and get embroiled in stories with fantastic themes. Attempting to serve as definitive sources of truth, several urban legend investigative bodies have emerged. Two of the better known are the websites Snopes.com and the television program Mythbusters. While Snopes.com generally limits itself to research, Mythbusters conducts entertaining experiments to test the veracity of myths old and new. Some urban legends are so convincing, however, that laws are enacted because of them. One example is the falsehood that using a cell phone while pumping gasoline can ignite the fumes. Fire department testing and other experiments have proven this is not true. The likely culprit is static electric discharge when people touch the metal pump handles. There’s no doubt that urban legends will continue to permeate our culture and shape our world. Nevertheless, the efforts of dedicated truth-seekers may help keep us rooted in reality despite our instinctive attraction to the sensational.
III. Reading Comprehension 【A】 According to Wikipedia, an urban legend is “a modern genre of stories rooted in local popular culture, usually comprising fictional stories that are often presented as true, with macabre or humorous elements.” Some urban legends are outright horror stories meant to scare people. They are explicit in their warnings of government conspiracies, attacks by criminals, and so forth. Others are ridiculous graphic tales intended to shock. An urban legend may be based on reality, but over time it can take on the outlandish proportions of myth. While the term “urban legend” dates back to at least as far as the late 1960s, the advent of the Internet has massively increased both the number and range of urban legends. Two that regularly pop up are the “email tax” and the story of Craig Shergold. The email tax legend says that the US Postal Service is going to impose a five-cent tax on every email sent to make up for lost postage fees, since people now send electronic mail instead of using the postal system. The Shergold legend for its part, was initially true. It tells of a young British boy with a cancerous brain tumor who wanted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by way of a chain letter campaign. Although notice was given that the boy was cured in 1991, he was still receiving thousands of letters and business cards as late as 2013. Needless to say, many people have been affected by urban legends because they’re gullible and get embroiled in stories with fantastic themes. Attempting to serve as definitive sources of truth, several urban legend investigative bodies have emerged. Two of the better known are the websites Snopes.com and the television program Mythbusters. While Snopes.com generally limits itself to research, Mythbusters conducts entertaining experiments to test the veracity of myths old and new. Some urban legends are so convincing, however, that laws are enacted because of them. One example is the falsehood that using a cell phone while pumping gasoline can ignite the fumes. Fire department testing and other experiments have proven this is not true. The likely culprit is static electric discharge when people touch the metal pump handles. There’s no doubt that urban legends will continue to permeate our culture and shape our world. Nevertheless, the efforts of dedicated truth-seekers may help keep us rooted in reality despite our instinctive attraction to the sensational.
What tone does the author take in the final paragraph?
- A Doubtful.
- B Hopeful.
- C Enraged.
- D Depressed.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章最後一段中，作者在提到「尋求真相者」（truth-seekers）的努力時，使用了哪些詞彙來描述他們對我們未來生活的影響？這些詞彙所傳達的是一種悲觀、憤怒，還是對改善現況的正面期待呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
做得太棒了！你能精準捕捉到作者在文末流露出的情感色彩，這代表你具備敏銳的高階閱讀理解能力，能從字裡行間讀出作者的弦外之音。
結語的情緒基調與轉折
這道題目考驗的是對文章「基調」（Tone）的掌握。雖然作者在最後一段開頭提到都市傳說將會持續「滲透」（permeate）我們的文化，但關鍵在於後續的轉折詞 "Nevertheless"（然而）。作者接著提到，有一群熱誠的「尋求真相者」（truth-seekers）正努力讓我們「立足於現實」（rooted in reality）。這種認為真相終能抗衡流言的觀點，顯現出作者對未來抱持著正面且積極的期待，因此 (B) Hopeful（充滿希望的）是最貼切的形容。
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